Monday, May 14, 2012

We have LOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!! After 88 very long days we received the email today that our agency has our LOA.  I was home today until 3:50. Checking emails all day, jumping when the phone would ring. Wouldn't you know, I left at about 3:50 to go get J from school. I was sitting outside waiting for him and heard the email notification on my phone. By this point in the day I had given up on it coming today. I just figured they would arrive to the agency early. Not so. Sure enough it was a scanned copy of our LOA. I cannot believe that it is finally here. The agency is sending it fedex priority so it will be here by 10:30 tomorrow morning. Hubby has a meeting from 9:30 til about 11:30 so I will drive across the lake to meet him when he is heading to his office. We will officially accept our referral of L* Xin Cai!!!!!!!! I am so excited I can barely stand it. I feel like I can finally exhale.Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...

Friday, May 11, 2012

Day 85

Today is day 85 and we still do not have our LOA. This whole process is kicking my butt. I am moody and crabby alot, well, alot more than usual. We might have some kind of, sorta good news. Still not sure how to take it. We received an email from the agency yesterday saying that our cordinator had been checking and that our LOA "should" be issued this week and that the agency "should" have it next week. Kind of sounds like good news right? To me, not so much. You see, we "should" have been able to have our HS done in 6 months. Things took longer. Our dossier "should" have been logged in in January, after all we were DTC Jan. 18. The courier "should" have delivered our dossier before CNY. See where I am going with this? So I don't know how solid the info from the agency is. Were they told this or are they guessing? So I asked and got some response that didn't really sway me either way. The shoulds are making me uncomfortable. Please let us get our LOA next week. I really can't take this wait too much longer. Even more importantly, there is a child spending another night in an orphanage, all the while there is a family that would get on a plane today to bring her home. Very sad.
 On a happier note, an incredibly sweet lady is in Chin@ this week picking up her daughter who was in the same orphanage as Ella. We are so grateful to her for taking time to find our girl and get us some pics and video. That was huge for us. We have not had an updated picture on her since December. Thank you soooo much Amanda! That was priceless. I will ask her if I can share the video on our blog.
 Well, hopefully the weekend will go by fast. I will be busy shopping and having a BBQ for Mother's Day, so hopefully next week will be here quick and will come with some great news. hopefully.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Another day

So we are starting a new day. Another day waiting. Another day hopeful. Another day that I hope does not end in disappointment. Again.
 I will be busy today with a doctors appointment, then hopefully lunch with the girls (and Evan), if not, me and Evan will squeeze in a trip to the mall, then to speech and off to pick up my older boys, then a night of homework. This will all keep me busy today, but it will not stop me from checking my email 500 times. I think that I have unsubscribed to every business that sends me notifications of sales and what not. I may never take advantage of free shipping at Bath and Body Works again. They are outta here. Not to mention countless others. Every time the phone gives me that email notification my heart skips a beat. That can't be good long term. And this has been going on for 75 days. Yep, 75 days. Please let today be the day.